London in Luster: PROJECTING Many bright Beams of TRIUMPH: DISPOSED INTO Several Representations of Scenes and Pageants.  
Performed with great Splendour ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER XXIX. 1679.  
At the Initiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON, Knight, LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON.  
DIGNIFIED With divers delightful Varieties of Presenters, with Speeches, Songs, and Actions, properly and punctually described.  
All set forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of DRAPERS.  
Devised and Composed by THO. JORDAN, Gent.  
— Pictoribus atque Poëtis  
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.  Hor. de Art Poet. 
London, Printed for john Playford at the Temple-Church, 1679.   

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir ROBERT CLAYTON, Knight, LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON.  
MY LORD,  
THE most Generous Ingenious Persons do never think themselves more affronted, than when most flattered; because Imperfections commonly are the Objects of such Varnish, but good Complexions defy Painting: I shall therefore avoid all florulent Expressions, and make my Addresses to your deserving Person, with such Encomiums, as are only delivered to me by the Dictates of Verity, which are these:  
By Divine Manuduction, Ability, Opportunity, Legal Election, and Regal Authority, you are invested and confirmed a Vicegerent over the most Celebrious City of all Europe, LONDON; yet at such a Season, when the Trouble of the Times will prove the Trial of the Magistrate; in which, an even Carriage may render you a good Governor, of great Circumspection, and an Example for Succession, betwixt this and the Period of Time. In order thereunto, your Company have dignified your Day with much Cost, disbursed in delightful Devices of Triumphant Scenes, and Significant Representations, to illustrate your Lordship's Inauguration, and conduct you with splendour to your Centre of Honour, the Chair of Government: Which, that it may prove a Seat of Safety to yourself, and Security to the City, shall be the daily devout Wishes of,  
My Lord, Your really obliged humble Servant, THO. JORDAN.   

TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF DRAPERS.  
GENTLEMEN,  
HAving Invented, Composed, Reviewed, Corrected, and Transcribed this Copy of Structures, Figures, Habits, Gestures, Postures, Speeches and Songs, contained in this Day's Triumph (wherein, I hope, I have Copiously accomplished your Commands) I present them to your Judicial Examination, and favourable Approbation, with presumption that I have not at all prevaricated from the Substance of your Subject Matter, or deviated from the Circumstance of your Instructions, alluding to the Honour of my LORD, the Glory of the CITY, and deserved Dignity of this Worshipful SOCIETY: And although our Triumphs are clouded with Troubles, and the whole Kingdom is terrified with dismal Expectations; yet the Magnificence and full Grandeur of the Magistrate ought to flourish, and bid defiance to Treachery, as the true Method to encourage our Friends and disanimate our Enemies: Which I hope will be confirmed by Providence, who is the Author of peace, Lover of Concord, and Confounder of Cruelty, who will I hope Conserve this City and Company from Desolation and Destruction, according to the assidual Wishes and daily Deprecations of,  
GENTLEMEN, Your humble and faithful Servant, THO. JORDAN.   

In proper Habits orderly Arrayed,  
The Movements of the Morning are displayed.  
SElected Citizens i'th' Morning all  
At seven a Clock, do meet at Drapers-Hall.  
The Master, Wardens, and Assistants, Joyns  
For the first Rank, in their Gowns faced with Foins.  
The second Order do, in merry moods,  
March in Gowns faced with Budge and Livery Hoods.  
In Gowns and Scarlet Hoods Thirdly appears  
A youthful number of Foins Bachelors.  
Forty Budge Bachelors the Triumph Crowns,  
Gravely attired in Scarlet Hoods and Gowns.  
Gentlemen-Ushers which white Staves do hold  
Sixty; in Velvet Coats and Chains of Gold.  
Next, Thirty more in Plush and Buff there are,  
That several Colours wave, and Banners bear.  
The Sergeant Trumpet Thirty six more brings,  
Twenty the Duke of York's, Sixteen the Kings.  
The Sergeant wears Two Scarfs, whose Colours be,  
One the Lord Mayor, the other's the Company.  
The King's Drum-Major followed by Four more  
Of the King's Drums and Fifes, make LONDON roar.  
Seven Drums and Two Fifes more in Vests of Buff  
March with Waste-scarves, and Breeches of Black Stuff.  
Two City Marshals mounted and attended,  
Are by the Company with Scarfs befriended.  
And (next to th' Drums) do Troop it in the Rear.  
But the Foot Marshal doth the next appear;  
Who puts them all in Rank and File, and wears  
A Shoulder Scarf as broad and rich as theirs.  
Attended by six persons that dare do  
What e'er their Marshal may Command them to.  
Next the Fence-Master troops, and (to defend him)  
Divers with drawn broad bright Swords do attend him.  
Many poor Pensioners that march i'th' Rear,  
With Gowns and Caps, Standards and Banners bear;  
A numerous Troop of Persons that are poor,  
In Azure Gowns and Caps, one hundred more,  
With Javelins and with Targets are all Actors,  
And bear the Arms of their good Benefactors.  
Being thus prepared:  
By the Foot-Marshals Judgement they are guided,  
And into six Divisions are divided:  
Ranked out by two and two. The first that stirs  
Are the poor Company of Pensioners;  
But in the front of them orderly be  
Placed the Ensigns of the Company.  
Ith' Rear of them four Drums and one Fife more,  
Then Pensioners in Coats described before.  
Persons of worth who do in Martial manner,  
Bear each of them a Standard or a Banner.  
Four Trumpets more to them, and in their Rear  
Two of the Draper's Ensigns march, which bear  
(As by the Herald Painter in expressed)  
The Draught of their Supporters, and their Crest:  
Six Gentlemen-Ushers in order trudge,  
And after them the Bachelors in budge:  
Marching in measured distance, and endued  
With Order, This Division doth conclude.  
I'th' Rear of them six Trumpets do appear,  
And after them two Gentlemen, that bear  
Two Coats of Arms, which appertaining be  
To th' City and the Draper's Company.  
Then do march up Eight Gentlemen that wears  
The Golden Chains, than the Foins Bachelors,  
In amicable measure, move like Friends  
Filled with one Joy: So this Division ends.  
Two Gentlemen in velvet Coats arrayed,  
March after them with two Banners displayed;  
Then succeed them Ten Gentlemen-Ushers more,  
In Coats and Chains of Gold described before;  
And gradually after them you'll see  
A very worthy large Society;  
With each of them a Gown and Livery Hood,  
And all LORD MAYORS in the Potential Mood.  
I'th' Rear of these (with silver sounds to fit ye)  
Do fall in divers Trumpets of the City;  
And after them two Gentlemen accord,  
To bear the Arms o'th' City and my Lord:  
And then the Gentlemen with equal distance  
That usher in the grave Court of Assistants.  
I'th' Rear of them, four drum's, six Trumpets, be  
Ordered to bring up the Catastrophe.  
Three Gallants gradually follow them,  
Bearing the Banners of the Diadem.  
Kings, Queens, and Cities Ensigns, which engages  
Six Gentlemen to wait on them as Pages;  
The Masters and the Wardens bring up all.  
And thus equipped, they march from Drapers-Hall  
To my Lord's House, where th' Aldermen and He  
Take Horse, and rank according to Degree:  
Which being done, the whole Body in State  
Doth move towards Guild-Hall, but at the Gate  
The new Lord with the old Lord Mayor unites,  
Guarded by Gentlemen, Esquires, and Knights.  
Then thus attired, with Gown, Fur, Hood, and Scarf,  
March all through Kings-Street down to Three-Crane-Wharf;  
Where the Lord Mayor and th' Aldermen discharge  
A few Gentlemen Waiters, and take Barge  
At the West end o'th' Wharf; and at the East  
The Court Assistant, Livery, and the best  
Gentlemen-Ushers: Such as stay on shore  
Are Ushers, Foins, and the Budge Bachelor:  
Who for a time repose themselves and Men,  
Until his Lordship shall return again:  
Who now with several Companies make haste  
To Westminster, but in the way is placed  
A Pleasure-Boat that hath great Guns aboard,  
And with Two Broadsides doth salute my Lord.  
They Row in Triumph all along by th' Strand,  
But when my Lord and Companies do Land  
At the New Palace-Stairs, orderly all  
Do make a Lane to pass him to the Hall;  
Where having took an Oath that He will be  
Loyal and faithful to His MAJESTY,  
His Government, His Crown and Dignity,  
With other Ceremonials said and done,  
In Order to his Confirmation;  
Sealing of Writs in Courts, and suchlike things,  
As show his power abstracted from the King's,  
He takes his leave o' th' Lords and Barons, then  
With his Retinue he retreats again  
To th' Waterside, and (having given at large  
To th' Poor of Westminster) doth Re-imbarge,  
And scud along the River till he comes  
To Blackfriars Stairs, where Guns and thundering Drums  
Proclaim his Landing; when he's set ashore,  
He is saluted by three Volleys more  
By (the Military Glory of this Nation) the Company of Artillery-men, they being all in their Martial Ornaments of Gallantry, some in Buff with Headpieces, many of them Massy Silver.  
From Black-Fryers-Stairs, they march before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen through Cheapside to Guild-Hall. Those that went not to Westminster, viz. the Pensioners and Banners, being set in order, ready to march, the Foot-Marshal in the Rear of the Artillery-Company leads the way along by the Channel up Ludgate-Hill, through Ludgate into St. Paul's Churchyard, and so into Cheapside, where his Lordship is entertained by the first Scene or Pageant.  

A Description of the First Pageant  
WHich by a double Denomination is called The Fountain of Felicity, and Triumph of Time. A famous Fabric, erected and designed according to the delightful Dimensions of the Doric Order of Architecture, situate in the Medium of a pleasant Garden, adorned with the beautiful bravery of diverse-coloured Flowers, suitable to all the Seasons of the year, and on the extreme top of this Fountain is artfully elevated the Figure of Time, properly accommodate with all the Emblematical signalities, which are pertinent to his Representation, as Shape, Forelock, Wings, Hourglass, sith, etc. Round about beneath him on several Descents, gradually distinguished, sit the Twelve Months of the year; but in the front of this Fountain on a Pedestal, is perspicuously placed, a Person representing the judicial, critical, and punctual faculty of that minutary Minion, Opportunity, which is the Speaker, whose Habits with all other, pertinent accomplishments, I shall orderly describe in this method.  
1. OPPORTUNITY, In a Robe of Watchet-coloured Satin, richly Embroidered, and all over laced with Silver, a silver Scarf fringed with Gold, a long lovely bright flaxen Hair, a golden Coronet about his Head, on the front of which is a very large Oval Clock-Dial-Plate, the ground of which is Azure, with the Hand and literal Figures OR, the Finger pointing at xii. On his Shoulders a pair of golden and purple Wings; on his Feet a pair of carnation Buskins, laced and surfled with gold and silver Ribon. In his left hand he beareth on a large Shield, Vert, an Angler fishing in a River proper, drawing up a large Fish, the Motto, In tempore veni quod omnium rerum est primum.  

The Twelve Months described.  
1. MARCH, A young man with a swarthy Complexion and fierce Aspect, in a tawny velvet Coat, buttoned and looped with Gold, a large shoulder Belt embroidered with Gold, in which hangeth a Sword with a gold Hilt, a black short curled Hair, on which is a golden Helmet, with a plume of red, white, green, and blue Feathers, a Chain of Gold about his Neck, at which is hung a large Medal before his breast, charged with the first Sign of the Zodiac, called Aries, the Ram, golden Buskins laced and surfled with scarlet-coloured Satin Ribon. In his left hand he bears a large Target, on which is painted the Arms of the first in order of the Twelve Companies, viz. the Mercers: In the other hand, a Banner of the King's.  
2. APRIL, A handsome young Lady, in a long grass-green silk prunello Robe, a blossom-coloured Mantle, a bright brown Hair, on which is a Garland of Myrtle and Hawthorn Buds, Primroses, Violets, Crocus', and Emonies; and on an oval Plate springing up from the Garland above his Forehead, the Sign Taurus, with green and silver Wings upon his shoulders; holding in her left hand a Shield, bearing the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Grocers; in her right hand, a Banner of the Companies.  
3. MAY, A lovely young Boy, clad in a florid Robe, with a Mantle of poppinjay-green silk and silver, winged with purple and gold, flaxen Hair curled; on his Head a Garland of Damask, white and red Roses, Blew-bottles and Scarlet Poppies, and (on the like oval as the former) above his Forehead the Sign Gemini: In one hand a Target, with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Drapers; in the other hand a Banner of the City.  
4. JUNE, A Lady of well-grown stature, in a Robe of French green Silk thick-laced with Gold, a pink-coloured silk Mantle mixed with silver, winged with silver and gold; a long brown curled Hair, on which is a Garland of Honey-suckles, Strawberries, Bugloss, and Columbines of all colours, with an erected sprig and oval in front, on which is the Sign Cancer; Buskins of silver, laced and surfled with grass-green silk and silver Ribon. On her left Arm a Buckler, on which are the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers: In her right hand a Banner of the Lord Mayor's.  
5. JULY, A proper Lady, in a Robe of light yellow-coloured Satin, a Mantle of silver and carnation Silk, a dark-brown Hair, curled, on which is a Garland of Gillyflowers, Musk-Roses, French Mary-golds, and blue Mary-golds with Africana's, winged with crimson and silver, and on the oval in the front, formed like the rest, the Sign Leo. On her right Arm hangeth a Shield, charged with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. In her right hand a Banner of the King's.  
6. AUGUST, A young Man, of a fierce and choleric Aspect, in a flame-coloured Garment of silk, a black and Gold Scarf, a sunburnt Hair, a Garland of Wheat and Rye, bearing the Sign Virgo; lemon-colour and silver Wings. In one hand a Target, with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors: In the other hand a Banner of the City.  
7. SEPTEMBER, A Lady of merry cheerful countenance, in a purple Robe, a French green and gold silk Scarf, a brown flaxen Hair, a wreath of white and purple Grapes, Apples, Plumbs, Pears, green Walnuts mixed with their leaves; on her Forehead the Sign Libra, with Wings of divers colours. In one hand she bears a Shield, charged with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Skinners: In the other, a Banner of the Companies. Her purple Robes showeth how she reigneth like a Queen above other Months, abounding with plenty of things pleasant and necessary for Man's life.  
The Sign Libra is now an indifferent Arbiter between day and night, poizing equal hours according to Virgil: 
Libra dies, somnique pares ubi fecerit horas.   
This hath its name, as being the seventh Month from March.  
8. OCTOBER, A young Man, in a Garment of yellow and carnation silk, a farsnet scarf of Foli-mort colour, a bright brown Hair, on which is a Garland of Oaken leaves, Acorns, and Apples, wearing yellow Wings, and on his front the zodiacal Sign Scorpio; yellow Buskins laced with purple Ribon. In one hand he beareth the Shield, adorned with the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers: In the other, a Banner of my Lord Mayor's.  
9 NOVEMBER, A swarthy complexioned Lady, in a Robe of changeable green silk, a black silk and gold Mantle, with orange and purple Wings, on her head a dark brown Hair, about which is a Garland of Olives, (fruit and leaves) and fronted with the Sign Sagittarius. In one hand she beareth a Target, dignified with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Salters: In the other, a Banner of the City.  
10. DECEMBER, An old Man of a crabbed visage, his Nose red, he is wrapped in an Irish Rug, girt about him, an old white Peruke, on which is no Garland, but three or four Nightcaps, and over them a Turkish Turban, stuck with Holy, Ivy, and Misletow, with black Wings; and on his Forehead the Sign Capricornus. On his hands are furred Mittens, in one of which he holdeth a Buckler, illustrated with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers: In the other hand a Banner of the King's.  
11. JANUARY, An old Woman clad all in white Flannel, with a white shagged Irish Mantle, (like the colour of the Earth at this time when apparelled in Snow) a gray long Hair, with a wreath of Parsnips, Cabbage, Turnips, and Carrots, with milk-white Wings, bearing the Sign Aquarius. In one hand she beareth a Target, beautified with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Vintners: In the other a Banner of the City.  
12. FEBRUARY, An ancient Person in a Robe of dark skye-colour, edged with light sky and silver Fringe, semined all over with bright-shining and sparkling golden Stars, which commonly glare and glister in freezing nights, a Mantle of silver, embroidered with frost-work, a Coronet of Ewe, Cypress, Juniper, Pine-leaves, and their Apples, tipped all of them with snow-drops; black, blue, white, and yellow Wings; on her Forehead the pedal Sign of Pisces. In one hand a Target, enriched with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers: In the other hand a Banner of the Lord Mayor's.   

OPPORTUNITY, perceiving my Lord Mayor well fixed and settled in the posture of Attention, endeavours to answer his expectaion by rising up, bowing his Body, and delivering with audible Elocution this following Speech.  

The FIRST SPEECH Spoken by OPPORTUNITY.  
TIME, the Twelve Months, with Opportunity,  
In this fair Fountain are all come to be  
Actors and Speaker in your Jubilee:  
For Love and Honour, now in Triumph ride,  
A Day, your own Deserts have dignified:  
(I speak the sense of all the City, which  
Are Old and Young, Wise, Generous, and Rich)  
A Season that is Influenced by me  
Without whom nothing is done seasonably.  
My Lord! My Name is OPPORTUNITY.  
The Twelve Months, which these Persons represent,  
Contain the Limits of your Government:  
Who, on their Garland Foreheads, undertake  
To wear the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.  
The Shields (on which their Honour much relies)  
Contain the Arms of the Twelve Companies.  
Plenty hath sent her Fountain too, by me,  
That you may take your Oppurtunity:  
Without which, Princes, Politicians, States,  
Soldiers and Seamen, Merchants, Magistrates,  
Lovers and Labourers, in each degree,  
Shall simply Centre in Uncertainty;  
And lose the prosperous event of Fate,  
By setting forth too Early or too Late.  
I'th' restless Wheel of Time, there is a Nick,  
Which who so hits, is Fortune's Politic;  
But you, my Lord, know well, (by reading Men)  
Both what, and where, and how, and why, and when  
To apt your Power, though in this very point  
Of Time, I doubt, all things are out of joint.  
But when Extremes on either hand do sway,  
'Tis safest sure to choose the Middle-way.  
Extremes are dangerous, and apt to hurt us,  
We read, in medio consistit Virtus.  
Virtue and Providence hath made you rise,  
To serve the State in Two Capacities,  
Which grow as near as Brother is to Brother,  
Head of the One, and Member of the Other.  
If therefore you'll gain good Esteem on Earth,  
And dignify your Name, your Place, and Birth,  
If you will raise a future Fame, and be  
A Precedent to all Posterity,  
Let Equity with even hand, my Lord,  
Advance your Balance, and direct your Sword.  
Nothing can make a Nation so well live  
As Justice, when it is distributive,  
And equally dispensed. Consider, that  
This Demi-Godlike Power of Magistrate,  
Is given to try what Spirit you will be,  
Then do not lose your Opportunity.  
Advance true Virtue, punish every Crime,  
Y' have but a Year to Rule, This is the time.   
At the last period of this Oration, we had just cause to presume (by many significant Expressions, in motion, looks, and gesture) that his Lordship was well pleased; who separating from his Station, advanceth, with his worthy Senators, the Aldermen, through an unruly throng of admiring Spectators, till coming to Milk-street end, he is intercepted, and civilly importuned to apply his Observation to a Second Scene, which is rendered more manifest by this following Explanation.    

The Second Pageant,  
IS the Shepherd's Sanctuary, or Bower of Beatitude: A very proper and pleasant Scene, of quadrangular Form, situate on a delightful Mount, adorned with all the delectable Varieties that Art can present, or Nature produce; whose Centre is circled with a fragrant boundary of beautiful Borders, containing as much Diversity of Flowers and Fruits, in as pleasurable a Plantation, as Poetry hath pictured Paradise: In the front of which sitteth the Royal-Shepherd, attended by a double Pairroyal of Shepherds, and Shepherdesses, whose noble Names, well adapted to their Virtuous Natures, are these, 1. Vigilius and Precaria; 2. Canonicus and Evangelia, 3. Orthodoxus and Protestantia, 4. Fidelius and Bonopera; which are the Pious Pastoral Courtiers that wait on the wise Commands of the Royal Shepherd; who, according to his Dignity, is thus Attired.  
A Close-bodied Coat of Scarlet-coloured Satin, richly beautified with Silver lace, and over that a Purple-coloured Velvet loose Robe, richly laced with Gold; a Dark Brown Curled Hair; on his Head, a Ducal Crown; on his Left Arm hangeth a Shield Argent, Charged with a Giants Head Coupee; in his Right hand, a Golden Crook, on which hangs down a Golden Sling with Silver strings. Green Silk Hose, with Sandals of Gold. The Habits of Shepherds and Shepherdesses, are as followeth, figured by Pairs.  
1. VIGILIUS, in a Grass-green-silk Robe fringed with Silver, seeded with waking Eyes; a Siver Mantle edged with Gold, a brown Peruque, on which is a Chaplet of Bays and their Berries all tipped with Gold, with gray-silk Hose, silver Buskins laced and surfled with green and silver Ribon, a grey-silk Scrip laced with Gold by his side, a silver and green Sheephook in one Hand, with a Banner of the Kings in the other.  
PRECARIA, in a Robe of Ash-coloured silk and Gold, a Sea-green and silver Mantle, a curled flaxen Hair, a Chaplet of Flowers, Pearl-silk Hose, and gilt shoes tied with green and silver Ribon. By her side hangeth down a silver Scrip, a golden Sheephook in one hand, and a Banner of the Cities in the other.  
2. CANONICUS, in a silk Robe of dark russet colour, edged with broad gold Fringe, a Cloth of gold Mantle, a fair curled Hair, a Coronet of golden Stars, Green-silk Hose, Russet Buskins laced with gold and green Ribon, a green Scrip, embroidered with silver by his side; holding in one hand, a Silver staff with a golden Sheephook at the end on't; In the other, a Banner of my Lord Mayors.  
EVANGELIA, a Beautiful Lady in a silver Robe, an Olive-colour and gold Mantle, a long bright brown curled Hair, a Chaplet of white Roses, with an Olive-branch in front, upon her head, white silk Hose, and green shoes, tied with gold Ribon: In one hand a silver Sheephook, and in the other a Banner of the Virgin, the Patroness of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.  
3. ORTHODOXUS, in a Robe of dark-green silk and silver, a willow-green silk and gold Mantle, a long curled black Hair, on which is a Chaplet of Laurel, tipped with gold, french-green-silk Hose and silver Buskins, laced and surfled with gold and scarlet Ribon; a grey silk and gold Scrip by his side: In one hand a silver Sheephook; in the other hand, a Banner Charged with the Ensign of St. john the Evangelist, which is a Golden Eagle, holding a Pen and Inkhorn with the string in his Beak; the Arms of his Lordship's primary Society, the Scrivener's Company.  
PROTESTANTIA, a prudent Virgin, of gracious Aspect, in a Cypress-coloured silk Robe, fringed with Gold, a Gold and Jay-green Mantle, a long bright flaxen Hair, on which is a Coronet of white Lilleiss intermixed with Thorns, to signify her Innocence and persecution. By her side a Silver Scrip; In one hand, She holdeth a golden Crook; and in the other, a Banner of the Company.  
4. FIDELIUS, in a Sage-green Robe, laced and fringed with Sea-green silk and gold, a Mantle of Dove-coloured silk and silver, on his Head a dark brown Peruque, crowned with a Chaplet of Holly, the Leaves tipped with silver, and golden Berries, Ivy-green silk Hose, laced and surfled with grass-green and gold Ribon. A greet and silver Scrip; in one hand, a silver Sheephook; in the other, a Banner of the Kings.  
BONOPERA, a Princely Shepherdess of a lovely look, in a Robe of gray-green silk and silver, on which is a Mantle of Brimstone-green silk and gold; with the like Fringe, a bright brown Hair, on which is a Chaplet, containing variety of Fruits to signify Good Works, according to her Name, Willow-green silk Hose; white shoes tied with yellow and green and gold Ribon; a golden Scrip by her side; in one hand, a golden Crook; and in the other a Banner of the City.  
In the Front of this Scene, on the Stage is conveniently first placed a Golden Ram, backed by a pretty Rider, which is a very beautiful Boy, with such features of Face, curiosity of Complexion, and Symmetry of Limbs, that he would have been an excellent Original to draw an Angel by; and have prevailed with Medea as far as jason did when he obtained the Golden Flecce at Colchos. He is Arrayed in a bright silk Sea-green Robe, largely Fringed with Gold, a poppinjay green and gold Mantle; bright, long curled flaxen Hair; a Chaplet of Roses, Lemon-coloured silk Hose, and silver Buskins, laced and surfled with grass-green and silver Ribon; a Bridle of Purple and gold Ribon in his left hand, and a silver Sheephook in the other on which hangeth a Banner of the Company.  
His Lordship being in a propense posture of Expectation, the Royal Shepherd, with reverend Eyes, beholds the Venerable Object, and makes his civil Address to his Lordship, in these Expressions following.  

The ROYAL SHEPHERD'S Speech.  
I Represent that Shepherd whose abode  
Was Palestine, One who Divinely trod,  
And said, My Shepherd is the Living God:  
One that could use the Sheephook, Harp and Sling,  
A Shepherd, Soldier, Psalmist, and a King.  
That much condemned the vile Wits of his Age  
And ours, when wisely, in a Sacred Rage  
He did in this line Atheism explode,  
The Fool hath said in's heart, There is no God.  
A Royal Shepherd, One that gave Content  
To his Creator with good Government.  
Four Shepherds and their Shepherdesses do  
Attend on Me, and come to wait on You,  
Divinely Qualified, Celestial Swains,  
'Bove all that keep upon Arcadian plains.  
This Golden Ram with Antlers of defence [Points to the Ram▪]  
Doth show the Drapers, Strength, Wealth, Innocence.  
And as to Trade, the Sheep may serve ye both,  
In that it doth produce Parchment and Cloth.  
This little Scene, and I, do represent  
A Model of Your greater Government.  
For you present a Shepherd, This great Town  
Infolds your Flock, (a Plain of great renown)  
You do present a Soudier, when, by Law,  
You sit and Act in the Militia.  
In your distinct Capacities, Men know  
You are tam Marti quàm Mercurio.  
You do present a Judge, when you dispense  
Guerdon to Guilt, Secure to Innocence.  
You're a Musician too, in the Consent  
And Harmony of well-tuned Government.  
You do present a King, in this degree,  
For you present His Sacred MAJESTY.  
I hope you will present them all so well,  
You'll be a Pattern, no Time shall excel.  
So shall you please King, Citizens, and Peasants,  
And be well known to all Men By these Presents.   
His Lordship having exposed his patience, and dignified the ceremony and circumstance of the whole Design with his acceptation and approbation: According to regularity and custom, he continueth his March farther, till the approach of another Scene prepareth to receive a third Salutation, which is,   

The Third Pageant.  
A Delicate stately rich Royal Chariot, according to the exact and most curious Roman Order of building, rarely dignified and wrought upon, by the ingenious and artful hands of able Painters, Gilders, and Carvers, in accurate painting, as well statuary as perspective, by which the admiring beholders are honestly, though wittily, deceived into a great deal of fantastic Felicity, which is drawn by two golden pellited Lions, that are Supporters to the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, and are backed by two Negroes, richly and properly habited. And on several parts of this celebrious Chariot, are properly placed in elegant Order, certain eminent Figures, whose pertinent Dresses, significant Emblems, and majestic Motion, add Life and Soul to the body of the building, which are in number Eight, viz.  

1. LOYALTY, A young Man of Heroic Aspect, thus accomplished; On a close Coat with silver sleves, a suit of golden Armour, viz. Back, Breast, and Corslet, with a gilt Elbow-Gauntlet, a pair of Roman Bases, with several Labels, or Panes of purple, gold, scarlet, and silver, hanging down from his waste to his knees, a long bright flaxen curled Hair, on which is a golden Helmet, with a red and white large Plume of Feathers, scarlet silk Hose, and gold Buskins, laced and surfled with silver and purple Ribon. On his left Arm is braced a large Target, where, on a Field Gules is born the Rose and Crown OR, with this Motto, Pro Rege, Lege & Grege: In the other he advanceth a golden Truncheon, who sitteth eminently on the supreme seat of the Chariot.  
2. PIETY, In a black silk Robe, a silver Mantle, a fair Hair, on which is a Coronet of golden Stars; white Hose, silver Buskins laced with black and gold Ribon, bearing a Buckler in one hand, whereon a Mount Vert, is the Figure of Devotion, kneeling in the posture of praying: In the other hand, a Banner on an Angelical-staff, bearing a cross Gules in a Field Argent.  
3. EQUITY, In a crimson scarlet Robe, and on it a gold Mantle, fringed with silver, on her Head a long dishevelled Hair of flaxen colour, curiously curled, a wreath of white and red Roses; sky-coloured silk Hose, white Shoe. In her right hand she holdeth a golden Balance equiponderant, to weigh equally and impartially: In her other hand she beareth a Banner of the King's.  
4. VERITY, A very beautiful Virgin, in a white sarsenet Robe, a Cloth of silver Mantle, a fair bright crispy curled Hair of pure flaxen, a Garland of white Lilies and white Roses, white silk Hose, white Buskins laced with silver Ribon. In one hand a large Fan of Stars (with which she chaseth away the mists of Error:) In the other hand, a Banner of the Cities.  
5. UNITY, In a Robe of green Sarsnet, sprinkled with divers Annulets of gold, a Chain of Gold thrice double about her Neck, an orange-coloured Mantle deeply fringed with gold, her Legs and Feet beautified with Buskins of gold, surfled with watchet silk and silver Ribon, a wreath of green Laurel (about a long Peruke of brown Hair) on her Head. Bearing in one hand an Escutcheon Vert, charged with a Triangle within a Circle OR: In the other hand a Banner of the Companies.  
6. FIDELITY, A lovely Lady, adorned with a Robe of purple silk, trimmed with silver and gold Network, a rich Cloth of gold Scarf, a bright brown Hair, curiously curled on her Head, about which is a Coronet of Hands and Hearts, scarlet-colour silk Hose, silver Buskins laced with purple and gold Ribon, surfled. In one hand a Target sable, with two hands conjoined in Fess OR: In the other hand a Banner of the Cities.  
7. MAGNANIMITY, A Masculine Virgin inrobed with Cloth of silver, a skye-colour and gold Scarf, in which hangeth a short Sword, with a gold Hilt, a long curled Peruke of Raven-black Hair on her Head, about which is a wreath of Oaken Leaves and Acorns tipped with gold, sky-coloured silk Hose, with yellow Buskins laced and surfled with silver. In one hand she beareth a Shield Azure, charged with a golden Heart: In the other, a Banner of the Lord Mayor's.  
8. STABILITY, In a scarlet-coloured silk Robe fringed with silver, an orange-colour and silver Scarf, a long dark brown Hair curled on her Head, about which is a wreath of Bays tipped with gold, pearl-colourd silk Hose, with gilt Buskins laced and surfled with carnation Ribon. In one hand she beareth a Shield Vert, charged with a Fess Wavey betwixt the two Pole Stars, Artic and Antarctic, OR: In the other hand a Banner of the King's.   
LOYALTY, seeing my Lord in a fit posture of Attention, riseth up, and ceremonially addresseth to his Honour in these words:  

The SPEECH of LOYALTY.  
THat I appear thus Armed with Shield and Sword  
Is proper, my Name's LOYALTY, my Lord.  
True Loyalty, without Schism or Rent,  
For th' King, my Country, and The Government,  
Against all those that hatched the late damned Plot  
As black as Hell, and would have been as hot,  
If Providence and Loyalty had not  
Discovered it; who will as long as able  
Persist with Spirits indefatigable.  
Except true Concord be amongst us bred,  
We shall be ruined, as your Lordship said.  
I do, my Lord, the more insist upon't,  
'Cause y' have declared for a True Protestant;  
For so am I, a Vessel of such Rate  
As ventured against Spain in Eighty Eight:  
According to that Church, i'th' Life and Death  
Of peaceful, blessed, Queen Elizabeth.— [A good Pause.]  
Y' have gained the Love of LONDON, o'er which, Fate,  
Merit, and Choice, have made you Magistrate,  
The great and good Lord Mayor, in such a Season  
As will require your most refined Reason,  
Authority, and judgement, (all the Town  
Is big with Expectation) and to Crown  
With happy Omen, your deserved Honours,  
Your Company have displayed all their Banners.  
Opened their Treasuries, willing to pay  
Their Tributary Triumphs on your Day:  
They've sent their Lions too, that they and I  
May defend you from all Conspiracy.  
This Rich and Royal Piece of Art you see [Points to the Chariot.]  
Is called The Chariot of Loyalty,  
Furnished with all those useful Graces, that  
Exalt the Seat of a just Magistrate,  
Which I'll not nominate, lest with pretence  
Of pleasing, I oppress your Patience;  
Although not many, their intrinsic Virtue  
Shall fortify you so, no ill can hurt you,  
Your Prudence will direct you how to choose 'em,  
And when, and where, and in what case to use 'em,  
Vice to suppress, and virtuous Souls to nourish,  
So, the whole City, and your Fame shall flourish.   
The Speech being ended, his Lordship giving sufficient demonstration of being well contented, proceedeth through a tumultuous Torrent of crowding People, which to describe is so numerous and various, that it would exceed the full length of a Show in the Description.  
But in brief they were Shows to one another, the disordered People below in the Street was an excellent Scene of confusion to the Spectators above in the Balconies, who like waves of the Sea, did in continual agitation, roll over one another's necks like Billows in the Ocean, and the Gallantry above were as pleasurable a sight to the Spectators below, where hundreds of various defensive postures were screwed, for prevention of the fiery Serpents and Crackers that instantly assaulted the Perukes of the Gallants, and the Merkins of the Madams. In that Scene below, I saw a fellow carried in a throng of Squeezers, upon mens' backs like a Pageant for the space of thirty Yards; in all which time, being somewhat over-sensible of his Elevation, strutted, cocked his Beaver, and rid in Triumph, till at last a new provocation of diversion separating the shoulders of his Supporters, dropped him in a dismal dirty kennel, whilst a race of fresh Gamesters ran over him. Like a popular Favourite, who when the Faction dissipates, is left to himself, and laid liable to all misfortunes. But (in this time) my Lord is come to St. Laurence-Lane end, where he is jovially saluted with a Scene of Drolls, being all pertinent persons in merry conformity to the Draper's Company.   

The Fourth pageant.  
THis Scene is a Landscape of Salisbury Plain, where Rustic Shepherds and Rural Shepherdesses are feeding and folding their Flocks, and for the future Exaltation of the Draper's delight, here are several Trades met together all pertinent for making of Cloth; as Carders, Spinners, Dyers, Wool-combers, Sheerers, Dressers, Fuller's, Weavers which are set without Order, because the Excellency of this Scene doth consist in confusion, although their Number and weight are too cumbersome and ponderous for all of them to work, according to their distinct Arts and Mysteries, yet they are here met in their Persons to rejoice and express their Frolicks, in Dancing, Tumbling, Jumping, Pipeing and Singing; and all such jovial Actions and Movements of Agility, as may express their Joy and Exultation in their Compliment to the New Lord Mayor, and their Service to the Draper's Company. When they had done over their Tricks of Activity; as much silence (as could be in that place at that time) was Commanded, whilst a Jolly Shepherd and his Bonny Shepherdess advance their Voices in in this following Ditty, in praise of a Shepherd's Life, sung by Opilio and Pastora.  

A SONG.  Opi. 
OF all the blessed Lives in the World that are famed,  
The Shepherd's condition ought first to be named,  
Which may be defended from every Degree,  Past. 
For Piety, Honour, and Antiquity.  
Just Abel 'tis said,  
A Shepherd by Trade,  
Did die the first Martyr that ever was made.  Opi. 
And by his own Brother received his Doom,  
Although their Formation were both in a Womb.  Past. 
This Example may teach us, if well understood,  
That there's no Infallible friendship in Blood.  Opi. 
When David did follow the Ewes great with young,  
He lived like a Shepherd, he piped and he sung;  Past. 
But when he was cramped with the cares of a Crown,  
His own complaints tell us, his comforts fell down.  Opi. 
His days of delight  
Were trouble and fright,  
His hands were taught War, and his fingers to fight:  Past. 
But though he was blessed with the Death of Goliath,  
His crosses increased with the fall of Uriah;  
He had a fair Fortune, and stoutly he kept her,  
Turned Hook, Scrip, and Bottle, to Ball, Crown, and Sceptre.  Opi. 
Thus far Divine History dignifies Shepherds,  
Preserving their Flocks from Wolves, Lions, and Leopards:  
Apollo (adored as a God yet) did keep  
On Thessalian Mountains King Admetus' Sheep;  Past. 
And Pan must not be  
Forgotten by me,  
Whom Shepherds did Worship as their Deity.  Opi. 
In Arcadian plains he Dominion did bear,  
When Argalus and his Parthenia were there,  Past. 
These Precedents ev'ery Objection convinces;  
Shepherds have been Martyrs, Gods, Prophets, and Princes,  Opi. 
One other (to amplify all) I shall name,  
Of Courage and Conduct, good Fortune and Fame,  Past. 
A Shepherd by Trade, and a Scythian by Birth,  
As you will confess when you hear of his worth,  
Tamburlaine did make  
The Turk's Empire to shake,  
When he in a Battle did Bajazet take.  Opi. 
Though five hundred Thousand men there did engage,  
He took him, and put him into an Iron Cage;  Past. 
In one little Cabin his Empire and Throne is,  
Who with his one Tongue declared Lex talionis.  Opi. 
But we simple Shepherds on Salisbury plain,  
Live in more content than some Princes that Reign▪  Past. 
In Valleys and Mountains we pipe and we sing,  
Love God and our Neighbours, the Church and the King:  Opi. 
We are not such Sots  
To harbour black Plots,  
To call in the Frenchmen or draw in the Scots.  
And in civil War every Honestman loses:  
They that love it I wish they may have't in their Houses:  Chor. 
No Kingdom, nor Dukedom, nor Popedom can be  
With all their Dominions, so happy as we.  Opi. 
We are not for Pistols, Guns, Backsword, nor Rapiers,  
But pray for good Tradeing amongst LONDON Drapers,  
Of whose Corporation and Society  
Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin first Lord Mayor was Free.  
Who, as it appears  
By our Overseers,  
Did Rule as Lord mayor above Twenty four years.  
And it is presumed (he so justly did do)  
If he had not died then, might have sat there till now.  
Then let's sing and Dance up, Curvet, and cut Capers,  
we'll pray for the King, the Lord Mayor and the Drapers.   
The Song being ended the Foot-Marshal, having placed the Assistants, Livery and the Companies on both sides of King-street, and their Pensioners with their Targets hung onthe Tops of the Javelins: In the Rear of them the Ensign-bearers; Dums and Fifes in the Front, and hasten the Foins and Budg-Batchelors, together with the Gentlemen-Ushers to Guild-Hall, where his Lordship is again saluted by the Artillery-men with Three Volleys more, which Concludes their Duty; His Land Attendants pass through the Gallery or Lane, so made into Guild-Hall, after which the Company repairs to Dinner in the Hall, and the several Silkworks, and Triumphs are likewise conveyed into Blackwell-Hall, and the Officers aforesaid, and the Children that sit in the Pageants there refresh themselves until his Lordship hath Dined at Guild-Hall.  
But I must attend my Lord in the Hall at Dinner, and give an account of the delightful Diligence, with the Jocal Accomplishments and performances of the Musical Movements.  
His Lordship and the Guests being all seated, the City Music begin to touch their Instruments, with very Artful Fingers, and after a Consort Lesson or two being played, and their Ears as well feasted as their Palates, an Acute Person with good Voice, brisk humour and Audible utterance (the better to provoke Digestion,) sings this pertinent Frolic, called,  

The CORONATION of CANARY.  

DRink your Wine away,  
'Tis my Lord Mayor's day;  
Let our Cups and Caesh be free:  
Beer and Ale are both  
But the Sons of froth,  
Let us then in Wine agree  
To taste a Quart  
Of every Sort,  
The thinner and the thicker;  
That spite of Chance  
We may advance  
The Nobler and the Quicker,  
Who shall by Vote  
Of every Throat  
Be Crowned the King of liquour.   

II.  
Muscadel Avant,  
Bloody Alicante,  
Shall have no free vote of mine;  
Claret is a Prince,  
And he did long since  
In the Royal Order shine.  
His Face is spread  
With sprightly red,  
And so he loves to see Men;  
If he bears sway,  
His Subjects they  
Shall be as good as Freemen.  
But here's the blot  
Almost forgot,  
He's too much burnt by Women.   

III.  
By the River Rhine  
Is a valiant Vine,  
That can all our Veins replenish;  
Let us then consent  
To the Government,  
And the Royal Rule of Rhenish.  
The German Wine  
Will warm the Chine,  
And frisk in every Vein;  
'Twill make the Bride  
Forbear to chide,  
And call him to't again.  
But that's not all,  
He's much too small  
To be our Sovereign.   

IV.  
We shall never think  
Of a nobler Drink;  
Then with votes advanced high,  
Let us all proclaim  
Good Canaries Name,  
Heaven bless His MAJESTY.  
He is a King  
In every thing,  
Whose Nature doth renounce ill;  
He'll make us skip,  
And nimbly trip,  
To the Ceiling from the Groundcill,  
Especially  
When Poets be  
Lords of the Privy-Council.   

V.  
But a Vintner he  
Will his Taster be,  
There is no Man that can him let;  
And a Drawer that  
Hath a good palate,  
Shall be made Squire of the Gimlet.  
The Bar-boys shall  
Be Pages all,  
A Tavern well prepared;  
In jovial sort  
Shall be his Court,  
Where nothing may be spared,  
Wine-Porters shall  
With shoulders tall,  
Be Yeomen of the Guard.   

VI  
If a Cooper we  
With a Red-Nose see,  
But in any part o'th' Town;  
That same Cooper shall  
With his Adds Royal  
Be the keeper of the Crown.  
Young Wits that wash  
Away their Cash  
In Wine and Recreation,  
That hate dull Beer  
Are welcome here  
To give their Approbation:  
So shall all you  
That will allow  
Canaries Coronation.    
Dinner being ended, and Night approaching, his Lordship being attended by a private Retinue of his own Company, takes Coach, and is conducted to his Mansion-House, without the troublesome Night-Ceremony which hath been formerly, when St. Paul's was standing. When his Lordship is housed, those that attend on him depart with order and conveniency; and the Triumphs and Silkworks are by the care of the Master-Artificers, lodged for that Night in Blackwell-Hall till the next day following, and then are to be conveyed to Drapers-Hall. To close up all, the Artists and Artificers (each of them deserving Commendations) bid you Good Night.   
FINIS.